PS TEXT FORMAT Reference Manual

Overview of TFORM Capabilities
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Setting Headers A header is a line of text that prints across the top of each page of your
document. Generally, you use headers (or running heads, as they’re
sometimes called) to display information about the document to which a
page belongs or about the content of the page.
To set up a header, you use the HEADER command, enclosing in quotation
marks the text that you want to print. TFORM lets you divide your header
into three separate fields that print left-justified, centered, and right-
justified, respectively. If you want the header to be separated into parts or
printed in specific fields, you use vertical bars to tell TFORM which parts to
print where.
Suppose you want to use the header “Section 2: Overview.” If you want it
to appear right-justified, your HEADER command should look like this:
\HEADER "||Section 2: Overview"
If you want the same header centered, your command should look like this:
\HEADER "|Section 2: Overview|"
Finally, if you want the header separated into two parts, one left-justified
and the other right-justified, your command should look like this:
\HEADER "Section 2||Overview"